Category: Similarity Files
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from the Similarity Files – Boston City Hall
The connection here is more than obvious, and not exactly news either, but it is extra-topical in some ways. Just as our very very poor imitation of this building is slated for demolition (it might as well be), so too is the Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, proposing the abandonment of the Boston City Plaza,…
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from the Similarity Files – BHP Building, Melbourne
140 William Street (formerly BHP House), Melbourne, Australia Architect: Yuncken Freeman, Skidmore Owings & Merril, 1967 Ok, so this one is probably more widely ‘known’ than the previous example that I raised of international works of architecture that bear strong resemblance to buildings that we might find on our own Wellington streets, but it is worth
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from the Similarity Files – or, “haven’t we met before?” Shaklee Terraces
Shaklee Terraces, 444 Market Street, San Francisco CA, United States Architect: Skidmore Owings Merrill, 1979 Isn’t this somewhat eerily familiar, in this pic at least (and a whole bunch of others by Thomas Hawk, which can be seen here)? While any similarities to a certain green building, completed in our own city almost a decade later (and with…
